I have done some translation work with Google and here I give you first version of quite important document.I put here both in English ( which is the first revision) and German version(which is the original)

There is also one interesting document of New Generation of Retrofit Märklin decoders.

I hope that you understand that translation is not yet ready. ( I'm practicing translation from Germany to English at the same time I'm waiting for that important Märklin new book of CS2 and digitization).

I wish all the best to all of you and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Thank you @bph for giving the so much needed hand of help to M*! Now if only you could help translating the app itself as well ... Or don't, after some wasted time on pressing random things I got my loco to work the way I wanted, I guess I'm finally learning some German!

ESU is not much better btw, so it's a widespread problem.

And another documentation-related frustration. Lately the "Manuals" link is missing from the official pages, I used to check it out for more details on the loco than what's in the summary description online. That's one step backwards for me...

Case in hand. LokSound v4. English manual (Date: 10.04.12, Version: 4th Edition) vs the German one (Datum: 04.04.18, Version: 12). That to me shows how little importance they give to other markets (read: rest of the world).

Yes, you find friendly help online, this very forum is a great example. But that only comes after a lot of frustration and searching where to vent it, how to formulate your problem and so on. Having the manual available would simply avoid all this mess. The tech savvy can run the PDF through Google Translate, can't they do the same at least as a starting point?

Similarly, loco manuals are in German only for the vast majority of their models: EN (5 and only the first booklet) vs DE (17 * versions and exploded part views as well). Mine in particular was not on this select list.

So between a bad and a worse, I'm not sure who's the winner. The customers of either companies for sure not. Plenty of opportunities for improvement here!

Also for us if the makers don't step up... For example to create a repository of community translated manuals, it would make them much easier to locate than in a forum.

Thank you @bph for giving the so much needed hand of help to M*! Now if only you could help translating the app itself as well ... Or don't, after some wasted time on pressing random things I got my loco to work the way I wanted, I guess I'm finally learning some German!

.costin

Agree with you on this, even if the program is in English (and French), there is still German parts. It has several software bugs and text/font errors.

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